Seasoning on Crawfish after Boiling

Did you eat it? Yes?
Did you like it? Yes?
Then who gives a shite?

I will loudly say WTF!!! If i see someone “dusting” their crawfish instead of seasoning prior to pulling the crawfish out.

On top of that a table needs to get flipped if i bite into a crawfish and taste fricking mustard.

The reason you season before the boil is so the flavor goes into the crawfish. Not after.

I know people do it, but I think it’s dumb. The seasoning is on the shell, so it gets really concentrated on your fingers and lips, but not so much in the juice of the crawfish, and not consistently in your mouth and on your tongue.

You know what else I don’t do? I don’t coat the outside of the shell of my hard boiled eggs with salt. I don’t put ketchup and mustard slathered on the outside of my hamburger bun. And I don’t dip my oyster shells in hot sauce before I shuck them.

I’ve noticed it’s a thing west of 49 and north of i10.

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Got a buddy from Lafayette who says this is the real Cajun way.

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I think you’re full of shite and just making stuff up for attention. If your buddy lives in Lafayette and boils this way, he probably wears skinny jeans, listens to Luke Bryan, and has NEVER asked his dad or grandpa how true Cajuns boil crawfish. Ain’t nobody in Laffy claiming “dusting” is the real Cajun way.

True that, my friend.

But a long time ago, I was "in the back" at a small restaurant in a small town near here, me and my dad visiting with the owner and his staff. Most all of them French-speaking.

There, I witnessed how the cooks seasoned the "spicey" orders different from the regular orders: They had a one gallon plastic bottle of Louisiana Hot Sauce, or similar brand, with the top cap replaced by a manual pump action device to dispense the hot sauce into plastic bins of crawfish ready to be served, then stirred around with a paddle.

Similar to dusting, but perhaps a little more acceptable due to the liquid nature of hot sauce giving the illusion that the spice is all boiled in to the meat.

Basile is just northwest of Lafayette and they farm a shite ton of crawfish…they steam crawfish with great results. If you do it right, the method works well.

Now this thread needs a NSFW warning.

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If your buddy lives in Lafayette and boils this way, he probably wears skinny jeans, listens to Luke Bryan,

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Amen and thank you for a good Luke Bryan ref.

Which reminds me, this is a great video about listening to Luke Bryan: LINK

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Your buddy is a dumbass.

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I wouldn't go that far, but it is definitely not a way I'd cook, or season crawfish.

Doing it that way is an abomination in my book, but to each their own since I didn't pay for their crawfish.